ALSA in a 2.6 world

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Sun Apr 18 07:05:46 UTC 2004


Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 05:19, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> [regarding installing a kernel from rawhide for ALSA]
> 
>>Normally yes. But I's not that easy that my parents could do it and not
>>99% risk free (nothing ist 100% risk free ;-) ). An it's way harder and
>>riskier then installing a windows device driver. This is the level I
>>want to reach (okay, with I dream of).
> 
> 
> So your parents need bleeding-edge ALSA sound capabilities?  My parents didn't 
> even notice when I broke sound on their machine and I still haven't got 
> around to fixing it...
> 
> I intentionally don't let my parents install anything on their machine.  When 
> they need something installed I'll install it for them.  Making Fedora 
> administration possible for the average office worker or the average child is 
> worth-while, making it possible for the average 60yo is not going to work. 
> 
Hey! watch that about 60yo, there might be some 59 1/2 year old lurking 
that may have been programming before you were born 8-}





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